Heritage record
Jamgarh Fort
PunjabFortProtected
A beautiful burnt brick fort standing in the desert with much of its original appearance, built in 1788 CE by Jam Khan Marufani. It is square in plan, measuring 35 m on each side. Its walls survive to the height of 9 m and are strengthened by circular bastions at the corner. Originally, a mud rampart was built around the fort of which merely an outline of mud on the ground is visible now.
- Record ID
- 6973
- Province / territory
- Punjab
- District
- Bahawalnagar
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Fort
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 29.16806, 72.54889 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Mughal, Mohammad Rafique. (1997). Forts in Cholistan. Ancient Cholistan, Archaeology and Architecture.
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